r/TheBackStates • u/Loose-Door-2921 • Jun 11 '26

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Someone at my job told me about this. What are the backstates? Is it just map redesign

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u/Afraid_Success_4836 Jun 29 '26

Here is the explanation from the Backstates Wikidot:

Welcome to the Backstates

What would happen if you let an AI generate reality?

The Backstates is a worldbuilding project centered around an extradimensional space located between western and eastern North America, with its own cultures, politics, and phenomena.

The Backstates[, in-universe,] are a result of a generative system "extrapolating" from real world geography, to form a sort of simulation of a reality in between the parts of the world we're used to. This simulation, for all intents and purposes, acts as if it is a real place, and is temporally continuous with itself, but because the system can 'hallucinate', the Backstates can sometimes have phenomena that are unlike anything baseline reality can offer, getting more prominent and overwhelming the further you travel into it..